Chapbooks : reconstructing the popular reading of early America / Victor Neuberg -- Excerpts from narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) -- William Shakespeare in America / Lawrence Levine -- Excerpts from Representative men by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Blackface lore cycle / W.T. Lhamon, Jr. -- Excerpts from nineteenth-century minstrel shows -- The figure of the dime novel in American culture / Michael Denning -- Excerpt from Last of the great scouts by Helen Cody Wetmore (1899) -- Dance madness / Kathy Peiss -- Excerpt from Elisabeth Marbury's Introduction to Modern dancing by Vernon and Irene Castle (1914) -- American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918 / Daniel J. Czitrom -- Excerpts from The spirit of youth by Jane Addams (1909) -- Arguments over broadcast advertising / Susan Smulyan -- Excerpt from "Sponsoritis (1930) -- Fool's paradise : Frank Sinatra and the American dream / Jim Cullen -- "Why the Americans are so restless in the midst of their prosperity" : excerpt from vol. II of Democracy in America by Alex de Tocqueville (1840) -- The making of the sitcom, 1961 / David Marc -- Excerpts from After all by Mary Tyler Moore (1995) -- Voices from the margins : rap music and contemporary Black cultural production / Tricia Rose -- Excerpts from Ladies first by Queen Latifah (1999).